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  3. NOTHING TO LAUGH AT

    If you don't want to look any older than you are, and would not object to looking younger than your actual years, you must avoid ...

    Article : 167 words
  4. A FAIRY TALE ANIMAL.

    A character who might have stepped straight from the pages of "Alice in Wonderland" is Pluto 11., who lives in the small mammal ...

    Article : 261 words
  5. MIDGET SEAPLANE.

    A new French seaplane, said to be the smallest in the world, can be assembled, piece by piece, in three minutes on the deck of a floating ...

    Article : 70 words
  6. BOMBS THAT DID NOT BEHAVE.

    Three Austrian schoolboys recently decided to avenge themselves for the low marks they bad received in an examination. They concocted a bomb ...

    Article : 552 words
  7. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    "Honesty," interrupted Buck McGee, "is the best policy, as I've proved. I've been weighed in the balance, as you might say, and ...

    Article : 1,517 words
  8. THE PYGMY PEOPLE.

    Pygmies are the smallest race of mankind, They once inhabited a large portion of the globe, but their natural timidity and smallness of ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. "WAITING" AFLOAT.

    Waiting in an aeroplane may be compared to waiting on a diningcar or on board ship—but it is easier. ...

    Article : 519 words
  10. THE FARMER'S BEST FRIEND.

    In co-operation with the botanist, the bio-chemist is making marked progress in producing serums to he injected into the sap stream of ...

    Article : 424 words
  11. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    A safe-blower doesn't blow about it later. An old farmer found himself travelling in the same compartment with ...

    Article : 516 words
  12. SCIENTISTS FLY KITES.

    Kites are often used for scientific work. Of course, they are not the toys of paper used by children. They are generally of the box types and ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    The best way to skim the fat from soup when it is required quickly is to strain it through a cloth soaked in cold water. The fat will stick to ...

    Article : 428 words
  14. GROW GREEN COTTON.

    Almost everyone who owns and loves a garden has some special ambition connected with it. Some people are constantly trying to raise ...

    Article : 377 words
  15. HOW ONE MAN SAVED A CITY.

    It was back in the Thirty Years' War—it was in 1631—that the principal event in the history of the city of Rothenburg took place—the ...

    Article : 374 words
  16. RING OF ROMANCE.

    A ring that would hare saved an Earl's life but for a woman's treachery was sold in London recently for £546. ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. THE MERMAID HOAX.

    The nearest approach to a mermaid ever seen on the English coast was the result of a hoax perpetrated many years ago by a student very ...

    Article : 315 words
  18. MAKE YOUR OWN GOLD!

    A new formula has been discovered for making synthetic gold by chemical means. One simply brings to a temperature ...

    Article : 112 words
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